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East West Street

East West Street
  • Author(s): Philippe Sands
  • Location(s): Lviv, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take...

Henry James’ Midnight Song

Henry James’ Midnight Song
  • Author(s): Carol de Chellis Hill
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 19th Century

This novel is set in Fin de Siecle Vienna and is populated with real characters – Henry James, Edith Wharton. The women of Vienna are dying – some by murder, some by suicide. During Dr. Freud’s absence in Paris,...

Marrying Mozart

Marrying Mozart
  • Author(s): Stephanie Cowell
  • Location(s): Munich, Salzburg, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1770s - 1840s

sophie, one of the Weber daughters is the narrator. 21 year old Mozart is first introduced to the four Weber sisters, to attend their open house music evening. Mozart is enchanted by the girls. This is a story with...

Mortal Mischief

Mortal Mischief
  • Author(s): Frank Tallis
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

…Dr Max Liebermann is a young psychoanalyst – and disciple of Freud. Psychoanalysis is only just developing and viewed with a mixture of excitement and suspicion. The world of 1900s Vienna is one where philosophy, science and art are...

Prelude to Terror

Prelude to Terror
  • Author(s): Helen Macinnes
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

This takes place mainly in Vienna in the late 1970s, and partly in Salzburg, featuring Colin Grant, who is on the hunt for a specific painting, which he has been instructed to buy at any cost. It brings together...

Tante Jolesch or The Decline of the West in Anecdotes

Tante Jolesch or The Decline of the West in Anecdotes
  • Author(s): Friedrich Torberg
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Already a much loved classic in Austria, “Tante Jolesch or the Decline of the West in Anecdotes” is Friedrich Torberg’s tribute to the Jewish coffee-house world that flourished in Vienna in the afterglow of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until its...

The Crooked Maid

The Crooked Maid
  • Author(s): Dan Vyleta
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1948

Vienna, 1948. The war is over, and as the initial phase of de-Nazification winds down, the citizens of Vienna struggle to rebuild their lives amidst the rubble. Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier after...

The Hotel New Hampshire

The Hotel New Hampshire
  • Author(s): John Irving
  • Location(s): Maine, New Hampshire, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

‘The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.’ So says John Berry, son of a hapless...

The Lady in Gold

The Lady in Gold
  • Author(s): Anne Marie O'Connor
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

Partly the story of Adele Bloch-Bauer, who is the subject of the painting later renamed by Austria as “The Lady in Gold” – was she one of Klimt’s lovers? Who’s to know? An intimate portrait of her in paint...

The Novel in the Viola

The Novel in the Viola
  • Author(s): Natasha Solomons
  • Location(s): England, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

This book starts off with Elise in her Austrian days, in Vienna, having a lovely time in the early thirties. Swiftly the story picks up at Tyneford House, a mansion on the south coast of Englan, where she is...

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